A Treatise on Social Theory
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Volume 2:Substantive Social Theory
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 February 1989
- ISBN 9780521369831
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages508 pages
- Size 229x29x152 mm
- Weight 740 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Third and concluding volume on social theory, applying distinctive methodology to case of twentieth-century England.
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This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species.
'This is a masterpiece: in its scope and its command of historical and ethnographic detail, it is reminiscent of Economy and Society; in its systematization more gripping.' David Lockwood
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: the case of twentieth-century England; 2. The case reported; 3. The case explained; 4. The case described; 5. The case evaluated.
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